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Welcome, new users! (self.main)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by smorks to c/main

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There has been a steady trickle of new users here today, and in the past little while, mostly due to the bad decisions that reddit is currently making.

Anyways, welcome! Feel free to look around, and if you have any questions about anything lemmy related, feel free to ask!

Also, if you feel up to it, introduce yourself in the comments below!

edit: Here's a nice getting started guide for lemmy: https://tech.michaelaltfield.net/2023/06/11/lemmy-migration-find-subreddits-communities/

i should have added it here a while ago!

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[–] ashley 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s like email but Reddit style

[–] CrimsonFlash 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

That makes way more sense!

The only roadblock I see is how difficult it is to follow communities outside your main instance. It would be nice if there was a log-in-as option so you can easily subscribe if you come across a page that isn't a part of your instance. Right now you have to either search it on your main, or copy the url over (which I've seen doesn't work all the time, but could be because of server load.)

[–] cygnus 5 points 2 years ago

Mastodon makes it easy to follow someone on a different instance, so I expect it's only a matter of time that Lemmy adds that functionality (especially now with the influx of new users)

[–] jnj 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I find it a bit annoying, maybe a browser extension which adds a link to "view in home instance" is the way to go in the meantime. Seems like it would be really easy to do. 🤔

[–] MrAusnadian 2 points 2 years ago

It’s easy with Mlem on iOS

[–] venuswasaflytrap 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, I read that before, but I didn't really understand what that meant.

[–] ashley 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Email is federated as well. You sign up to a server (ex. Gmail.com), then you use and interact only with gmail.com, but you can then tell gmail to send an email to another server such as outlook, and it’s the same for their users.

Difference being the content is public here, whereas email isn’t, and Lemmy also uses ActivityPub which is a standard to forward messages between servers.

[–] venuswasaflytrap 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I've been looking at the w3 spec. It's interesting. I think there isn't yet a good explainer page for newbies.

[–] ashley 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah I have to remember to look at the spec. Some of the things seem kinda odd to me, currently there’s an issue on Lemmy about upvotes, and how the instance the post is on forwards every upvote to every server with over one user joined to the community, which with maybe 100 servers, 1,500 upvotes, it can get to be a lot of requests.

Mastodon gets around this by not federating likes, currently in the issue they’re discussing sending the upvotes in chunks (ex. #upvotes in past hour)

Seems like there’s still some work to do on the backend of Lemmy, but I have faith it’ll get figured out soon.